Now, if you thought things in Britain couldn’t get even more insane - listen to this.
Suspended Labour councillor Ricky Jones, who last August at an anti-racism protest in East London drew his finger across his throat and called demonstrators “disgusting Nazi fascists”, adding, “we need to cut all their throats and get rid of them all” - has today been found not guilty by a jury who deliberated for just over half an hour.
All this while Lucy Connolly, a mother, is currently serving 31 months for a 51-word post she made online in the wake of the Southport killings, which she subsequently deleted and apologised for.
Of course, there are some differences between the two cases.
Matt Goodwin said the system has a bias
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Lucy Connolly pleaded guilty to the offence of inciting hatred, and a judge decided her sentence.
Ricky Jones, on the other hand, pleaded not guilty, and a jury decided he wasn’t guilty.
However, Ricky Jones, although initially remanded in custody, was granted bail, while Lucy Connolly was not.
Had she been given the same opportunity, she might have been more likely to plead not guilty and could very well have been acquitted, much like Jamie Michael was when he faced a similar charge.
Lucy Connolly was jailed for a social media post | XMichael had posted a 12-minute video claiming that illegal immigrants have “the numbers to take over” the country, pleaded not guilty, and avoided conviction.
But underlying this, out there among millions of hard-working, law-abiding Brits, is a profound sense of a two-tier justice system.
A sense that the rules simply aren’t the same for everyone, and that ordinary people can be punished harshly while others can walk free.
There are others like Peter Lynch, a grandfather, who was sent to prison for over two years for shouting that the police were “protecting people who are killing our kids and raping them.”
Tragically, the grandfather died in prison.
Meanwhile, Ricky Jones has been found not guilty and doesn’t face a day behind bars.
The system, it seems, isn’t blind - it has a bias, and ordinary, law-abiding citizens are the ones paying the price.